Understanding a Nautical Chart: A Practical Guide to Safe Navigation

By Paul Boissier

Charts are filled with a mass of data. This book tells you where to find – and how to understand – this vital knowledge.

First explaining how charts are compiled, this guides you through the elements that make up these vital navigational tools. Improve your understanding of charts and you will navigate with increased safety and confidence. In addition to the wealth of practical advice included, the book also contains the Symbols and Abbreviations Used on Admiralty Charts in full.

Ideal for professional mariners and leisure sailors. No chart table should be without it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fernhurst Books
• Release date: Apr 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781912177455

Paul Boissier

Paul Boissier was formerly a senior Admiral in the Royal Navy and has spent much of his professional life at sea in a wide variety of vessels, commanding two submarines and a warship. He is also a very experienced yachtsman and has cruised extensively. These perspectives, from the cockpit of a yacht and the bridge of a large ship, make him the ideal author for a COLREGs guide that will be equally useful to leisure boat users and professional mariners. Paul is currently the Chief Executive of the RNLI, the charity that saves life at sea, and operates over 340 lifeboats around the UK and the Republic of Ireland.